6/14 Day
Day 2 in New York… We took the subway from our hotel towards Battery Park - got off about half way there - crowds, hot, yucky. Took a cab the rest of the way. Stood in a long line to board the ferry boat. Great views of the Statue of Liberty and then went to Ellis Island. Again, a zoo there, but we watched a 30 minute film and then went to look up some ancestors. Found my grandfather’s arrival into the U.S. Pretty cool.
Back at Battery Park, we walked a bit - went by Ground Zero and then taxied to the Ed Sullivan Theatre - where Letterman films (we asked about 5 cabbies to take us there - none of them knew where to go - kind of funny).
Anyway, after getting all the rules and hype about being audience members for the Letterman Show, we were finally let in and it was fun.
After the show, we met Bryce and Katie (two of Chelsea’s friends) for dinner in Bryant Park - a very nice outdoor setting in a small park in mid-Manhattan. A very nice, leisurely dinner spent with friends. Katie pointed us in the right direction on the subway back to our hotel.
6/15 - Last day in New York and off to Europe.
It was a fairly hellacious 24 hours. In the morning we rented bikes and rode through Central Park… that was fun. But the plane ride was longggg and cramped… and even though we both took a Tylenol PM, we barely slept. Upon our arrival in Rome, it was kind of hard to find the rental car company, but we did and we also ordered a GPS to make our navigating this strange new world more manageable. We departed the parking lot with the GPS working, but very soon after we arrived on our first Italian street, it stopped working. To make a long story and drive shorter - it took us about 30 minutes to get back to the airport. We decided after that short experience to forget the car. So we returned it and took a bus into Rome and then two trains to Sorrento, where after a very, very long and tiresome day, we finally checked into our hotel… with a great view of Sorrento Bay. We’re saving some of the more fun details for stories to tell later.
